Cambridge launches LOGOS to tackle AI's grip on how humans think and learn
New University of Cambridge initiative puts epistemic rights, EdTech and cognitive flourishing at the center of the AI governance debate, with Oxford, Harvard and Jisc partnerships in play.
The University of Cambridge has launched LOGOS at CRASSH, with early workstreams on AI and EdTech already feeding into UK parliamentary committees.
The University of Cambridge has launched LOGOS: Securing a Human Epistemic Future, a research-to-impact initiative examining how AI is reshaping knowledge, learning, and cognitive agency, with live workstreams already feeding into UK parliamentary committees on EdTech and human rights.
Based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), LOGOS is led by Ann Kristin Glenster, Research Professor at the University of Cambridge. The initiative has published its first AI and education policy workshop report and is preparing evidence submissions to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Education Committee.
Forthcoming LOGOS reports include one on creative industries and AI copyright, and another on deceptive platform design.
An EdTech-heavy research agenda
Several of the early LOGOS projects sit squarely inside EdTech. A research project on EdTech and cognitive flourishing is being delivered with the Digital Education Futures Initiative (DEFI) at Cambridge, in collaboration with LOGOS affiliate Renate Samson. The initiative will also host its first public event at the Faculty of Education in June, co-convened with LOGOS affiliate Megan Ennion on the purpose and future of education.
LOGOS is launching OxBridge FFLARE, the Oxford Cambridge Forum for Flourishing, Learning and AI Research, jointly with Generation AI at Reuben College, University of Oxford. The first roundtable workshop takes place in May 2026, bringing academics, industry, policymakers, and civil society together on AI's effects on learning, wellbeing, and human development.
A wider governance footprint
LOGOS is also working with the Harvard Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights, via LOGOS affiliate Bethany Shiner, on epistemic rights, and with the Global Responsible Technology Lab at the University of Mannheim on epistemic rights, AI sovereignty, and national security, through LOGOS affiliate Eirliani Abdul Rahman. An international AI conference is being co-convened with Cambridge University Press and Assessment.
Glenster sits on the Center for Humane Technology's "AI and What Makes Us Human" Working Group, and through her role as Executive Director of the Glenlead Centre, she co-chairs Accessible Digital Futures, a two-year project with Jisc examining AI and accessibility in higher education.
Announcing the launch on LinkedIn, Glenster wrote, "I am thrilled finally to share what I have been working on for the last four months: LOGOS: Securing a Human Epistemic Future, a research-to-impact initiative at the University of Cambridge."
LOGOS has two near-term milestones on the calendar: the OxBridge FFLARE roundtable at King's College, Cambridge in May, and the first public event at the Faculty of Education in June. Its EdTech evidence submission to the Education Committee is due to publish before either lands.
